The AIconics are the world’s only independently-judged awards celebrating the drive, innovation and hard work in the international AI Community. A panel of 20 judges from around the world thoroughly reviewed competitive entries from the leading innovators in the AI Space.

Here are the 2018 winners:

Best Application of AI for Sales & Marketing

RTB House RTB House is a global company that provides state-of-the-art retargeting technology for top brands worldwide. Its proprietary ad buying engine is the first and only in the world to be powered entirely by deep learning algorithms, enabling advertisers to generate outstanding results and reach their short, mid and long-term goals. https://www.welcome.ai/rtb-house

Best Innovation in AI Hardware

Pure StoragePure Storage helps innovators build a better world with data. Pure's data solutions enable SaaS companies, cloud service providers, and enterprise and public sector customers to deliver real-time, secure data to power their mission-critical production, DevOps, and modern analytics environments in a multi-cloud environment.https://www.welcome.ai/pure-storage

Best Innovation in Robotic Process Automation

UiPathUiPath provides a complete software platform helping organizations automate business processes. The company's mission is to eradicate tedious, repetitive tasks and let software robots do the grunt work. They enable businesses and organizations to develop an agile digital workforce by providing a state-of-the-art platform for software robots orchestration. Their products automate across all internal or web-based applications/databases and have unmatched solutions for Citrix, SAP and BPO automation.https://www.welcome.ai/uipath

Artificial SolutionsArtificial Solutions® is the leading specialist in Natural Language Interaction (NLI), a form of Artificial Intelligence that allows people to converse with applications and electronic devices in free-format, natural language, using speech, text, touch or gesture. Delivered through Teneo® – an ultra-rapid NLI development and analytics platform – it allows business users and developers to collaborate on creating sophisticated, humanlike natural language applications in record time without the need for specialist linguistic skills.https://www.welcome.ai/artificial-solutions

Best Innovation in Deep Learning

IBM Watson StudioIBM’s experiment-centric deep learning service within Watson Studio allows data scientists to visually design their neural networks and scale out their training runs while auto-allocation means paying only for the resources utilized. Watson Studio accelerates the machine and deep learning workflows required to infuse AI into your business to drive innovation. It provides a suite of tools for data scientists, application developers and subject matter experts to collaboratively and easily work with data. Build, train, deploy and manage AI models at scale, and prepare and analyze data, in a single, integrated environment.https://www.welcome.ai/ibm-watson

Best Innovation in Natural Language Processing

ClarabridgeClarabridge helps hundreds of the world's leading brands understand and improve their customer experience. Using advanced text analytics, Clarabridge transforms survey, social, voice and all other forms of customer feedback into intelligence used to empower confident, decisive action across the business.https://www.welcome.ai/clarabridge

Best AI Start-Up

Luminance Luminance helps lawyers to categorise, review and analyse thousands of documents at speeds no human can match. With AI taking the burden of low-level cognitive tasks – like those common in due diligence, compliance, insurance or in-house contract management – lawyers can optimise their practice, working smarter, faster and more effectively.https://www.welcome.ai/luminance

Best Application of AI in the Enterprise

LiveTilesLiveTiles is defining the market for the intelligent workplace by giving developers and business users tools to easily create dashboards, employee portals, and corporate intranets that can be further enhanced by artificial intelligence and analytics features.https://www.welcome.ai/livetiles

Best AI Application in Healthcare

AIfred HealthAifred Health is using AI techniques to develop a clinical decision aid for physicians to improve treatment efficacy for individuals suffering from depression. The foundation of this clinical tool is the data collected by researchers investigating patient response to depression treatments in clinical trials . https://www.welcome.ai/aifred-health